Other Access Issues(Posts about any kind of access issue in the built environment, shops, services and various organisations. By "access issues" I mean anything which enables or disenables a person from doing what everyone else is able to do.)

I'm not really sure where it should go. It's mostly about comments and questions I get in relation to being a service dog partner which include a lot of ableist assumptions. I guess it could go under "other"? Otherwise maybe general or relationships or personal journey. (The blog itself is very relationship-focused, as being a SD partner is about that team relationship.) I don't know!

I make five points in it -- three about physical accessibility and two about conversational "accessibility" -- well, conversational things that are spoon-sucks for me. I think "other access issues" is the right category for it.

Title is "It's not Bridezilla to want access," I'm Mary from This Is My Blog, and category is either "Other Access Issues" or "Relationships, Love and Sex" (it's about trying to access the wedding industry as a disabled bride).

Sorry if this is a duplicate comment. My Internet connection was acting up when I tried to post my previous one. Anyway, I posted mine at http://astridvanwoerkom.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/i-am-whole-ableism-and-identity/. I think it belongs in the personal experiences category.

Hi, My post is up. Thanks so much for hosting this!I guess it's best placed under personal experiences, but feel free to place it elsewhere.- Michaelhttp://michaelwatsonvt.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/a-foot-in-each-world/

Congrats on another great BADD, Goldfish! I was once again too busy/lazy/other adjectives to contribute. Next year I shall try. In the meantime, I'll do a BADD round-up at Through Myself and Back Again over the next few days & link to it here in the comments.

I was trying to figure out which category to put mine in and saw you already had me in there under Impairment-Specific Prejudice, which works just fine, but there is no link to the post. Here is the link: http://sophy.livejournal.com/1239074.html

Is posted at this ain't livin' (http://meloukhia.net/2010/05/blogging_against_disablism_day_2010_do_you_need_assistance.html) and FWD/Forward (http://disabledfeminists.com/2010/05/01/blogging-against-disablism-day-2010-do-you-need-assistance/)

And should go in 'Other,' I suppose. Thank you so much for all your hard work on this, Goldfish!

I don't have the spoons to read everything (I don't want to risk going into a spiral at the moment - finals and a paper yelling at me) at the moment, but I do want to add a hearty thank you to everyone brave enough to write, today and every day.

It makes me feel less alone with everything I have to deal with - I still remember the excitement on finding somebody's post describing a reaction to medication and it's like being a "fangirl" and finding another. "OMG, you like Bollywood too?" instead it's "OMG, you do that too with meds too?"

I have a very old post about me accepting spoon theory, much too old for today.

I do however, have two recent posts dealing with disablism.

From April 22, "Medication for Bipolar Disorder and TV Shows"http://ohmonkeytrumpets.blogspot.com/2010/04/medication-for-bipolar-disorder-and-tv.htmlUnder Healthcare Issues?

From April 29, "Pajama Jeans and ableism"http://ohmonkeytrumpets.blogspot.com/2010/04/pajama-jeans-and-ableism.htmlUnder Disablism in Literature, Culture and the Media or Other. (It's about, well, two pieces online reacting to something and how chock-ful-o-privilege and hatred they are._

Because of various issues related to my disability, I cannot sit down and write a post about Blogging Against Disablism Day or something in general, abstract. I cannot think properly due to pain and the side effects of medication. (Which makes that paper even harder!)

But I do want to say a general thank you to every one who has posted here - even if I shy away in fear and never touch them, I know these posts mean so much to people dealing with disablism in addition to the disability.

Here's mine! You can put it under General, or Other, or maybe even Disability in Literature, etc. I don't know. Put it where you think it fits best. And forgive the weird font/formatting things going on with my post - I copied/pasted pretty much the whole thing from MS Word and it screwed with the formatting.

I have a very meager post at http://womenshealthnews.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/blogging-against-disablism-day-2010/ consisting mostly of pointing out a few resources that have been helpful to me as I learn more about these topics and try to increase my awareness.

I'm surprised that there isn't an entry under "health issues" that runs something like "stop teachers from practicing medicine without a license" - about stopping school employees from telling parents that they MUST put their kids on drugs.

You may not wish to publish my post. I thought the topic was "About Disability" rather than "Against Disablism". My post could be, possibly, considered an example of disablism. I am not certain. I am writing another post for next week "Against Disablism". Thank you for looking.

You may not wish to publish my post. I thought the topic was "About Disability" rather than "Against Disablism". My post could be, possibly, considered an example of disablism. I am not certain. I am writing another post for next week "Against Disablism". Thank you for looking.

I'm not sure which category it goes into; the general thrust of the post is General Thoughts on Disableism, I think, but there's a lengthy personal anecdote as part of it so I don't know if it should possibly be in Personal Journeys.

@Amanda: The General Thoughts is in a second column on the right. I didn't notice it either on my iPod at first, to be honest. I think this two-column layout is bad for accessibility for a number of reasons.

My original post with the URL did not get posted here somehow, though I got an email about it (pasted below):to tanmoy1@gmail.comdate 2 May 2010 02:55subject [Diary of a Goldfish] New comment on Blogging Against Disablism Day will be on 1st May,....mailed-by blogger.bounces.google.comSigned by blogger.com

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Aubin has left a new comment on the post "Blogging Against Disablism Day will be on 1st May,...":

Hey Goldfish? I noticed that a link to my post didn't make it up into your post.

I'll give it to you again - the post is 'Getting it Right - Blogging Against Disableism Day', it probably belongs in the general category, and the link is http://brilliantmindbrokenbody.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/getting-it-right-blogging-against-disableism-day/